[House  Bill,  No.  124.] 

HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES,  May  26,  1864.— Read  first 
xiid  second  times,  made  the  spcckl  order  after  appropriation  bill, 
and  ordered  to  be  printed. 

[By  Mr.  Lyon,  from  the  Committee  of  Ways  and  Means.] 


To  he  entitled   An  Act  making  appropriations  for  the  postal  service 

of  the  Confederate   States,  for  the  year  1862  and  IsRs. 

I  Whereas,  in  the  adminisiraiion   n|"  the  afliiirs  ol   the  Post-Oflice 

rl  Depiirtiiienl,  iu    the  yo.ir  IHfJ'i  ;m.j  18<).'i.  oiun-ni  expenses  for  mail 

3  service   were    met    hy   driuls  on  postma.ster^.   lor  accruing  postage 

4  and   revenue    under   reguhitions    providing    l"..i    subsequent    adjust- 

5  ment  of  such  transactions  at  llie  Trensurv  ; 

6  And  wheiea.s,  it  appears  that  estiujutes  were  suhuiitted  from  time 

7  to  time  hy  the  Postmaster  General,  for  appropriations  by  Congress, 

8  of  the  revenues  of  the  Department  towards  tbe  necessary  expenses 

9  thereof  but  from  some  cause  certain  appropriations  estimated  for 
10  in  1802  and  1863  were  omitted.     To  remedy  this  omi.ssion — 

1  Section  I .   The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do 

2  enact,  That  the  following  sums  be.  and   the  same  are  herehv  ap- 

3  propriatcd  out  of  any  money  in   the  Treasury,  being  the  revenues       , 

4  arisnig  from  postages,  sales   of  postage  stamps  and   emoluments 


2 

5  from  box  rents  tor  the  \t,>r^  eighteen  hundred  and  sixty-two  and 

6  eighteen   hundred  nnd  sixty-three,  no  appropriations  huvinj;  been 

7  heretofore  made  for  those  ye«r«-.  viz: 

8  For   transportation  ol    the  mails,  compensation   of   postmasters     , 

9  and  clerks,  ship,  steamboat  and   way  letters,  advertising.  m«il  bags, 

10  office   furniture,  l)lanks  and    |)rinting,  wrapping  paper,  mail   locks, 

11  keys   and   stamps,  mail  depredations   and   special   agents, j:)ostage 

12  stamps  and  miscellaneous  payments,  lor  the  year  ending  June  30th. 

13  1862,  two  hundred  and  seventy-six   thcftisand   three   luuidred  and 

14  fifty-five  dollars  and  twenty-three  cents,  ($270,355  23.)' 

15  For  transportation  of   the   mails,  compensation  of  postmasters 

16  and  clerks,  ship,  steamboat  and  way  letters,  advertising,  mail  bags, 

17  office  furniture,  blanks  and    printing,  wrapping  .paper,  maif  locks, 

18  keys   and    stamps,  mail  depredations   and    special   agents,  postage 

19  stamps  and  miscellaneous  payments  for  the  year  ending  June  SOtti, 

20  1863,  two  million  seven  hundred  and  thirty-seven  thousand  three 

21  hundred  and  two  dollars  and  thirty-cents.  (.12,737,302  30.) 


